munguban.

Brit.

/mʌŋˈɡuːbə/, U.S.

/məŋˈɡubə/

Forms: 1800s monguba, 1800s– munguba.

Origin: A borrowing from Portuguese. Etymon: Portuguese munguba.

Etymology: < Portuguese munguba, monguba, probably < Tupi.

A South American silk cotton tree, Pseudobombax munguba (family Bombacaceae).

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding fibre, etc. > silk-cotton trees

gossipine1589

gossampine1601

cotton tree1670

god tree1681

silk-cotton tree1712

kapok1735

semul1809

ceiba1810

wool-tree1831

bombax1834

munguba1863

cabbage wood1885

1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. i. 15 In the rainy season, when the Monguba trees shed their leaves.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 155/1 B[ombax] Munguba is a smooth-stemmed tree about eighty or one hundred feet high, commonly found on the banks of the Amazon river and the Rio Negro, where the natives call it Munguba.

1879 Scribner's Monthly May 76/1 The Monguba avenue has lost much of its ancient glory; the trees..are dying.

1986 Jrnl. Amer. Oil Chemists' Soc. 63 778 The seed lipids of Munguba (Bombax munguba Mart., Bombacaceae) were found to contain substantial proportions..of cyclopropene acyl moieties.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	munguba
释义	munguban. Brit. /mʌŋˈɡuːbə/, U.S. /məŋˈɡubə/ Forms: 1800s monguba, 1800s– munguba. Origin: A borrowing from Portuguese. Etymon: Portuguese munguba. Etymology: < Portuguese munguba, monguba, probably < Tupi. A South American silk cotton tree, Pseudobombax munguba (family Bombacaceae). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding fibre, etc. > silk-cotton trees gossipine1589 gossampine1601 cotton tree1670 god tree1681 silk-cotton tree1712 kapok1735 semul1809 ceiba1810 wool-tree1831 bombax1834 munguba1863 cabbage wood1885 1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. i. 15 In the rainy season, when the Monguba trees shed their leaves. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 155/1 B[ombax] Munguba is a smooth-stemmed tree about eighty or one hundred feet high, commonly found on the banks of the Amazon river and the Rio Negro, where the natives call it Munguba. 1879 Scribner's Monthly May 76/1 The Monguba avenue has lost much of its ancient glory; the trees..are dying. 1986 Jrnl. Amer. Oil Chemists' Soc. 63 778 The seed lipids of Munguba (Bombax munguba Mart., Bombacaceae) were found to contain substantial proportions..of cyclopropene acyl moieties. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1863
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